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Smokey Robinson pleased by enduring popularity By Robyn Bradley Litchfield * rlitchfield@gannett.com * July 24, 2008 Right in the middle of recording an album, Smokey Robinson has been working all night and ...

Minor investors in what was Don Barden's casino would get shares in the business chopped to a fraction of what they were expecting, according to a new ownership agreement.

You just can't help yourself. Even if you can't sing. Robinson, an iconic architect of the Motown Sound who still possesses that distinctively sweet tenor voice at age 68, turned the sing-a-long into a ...

Don Carter was peeking through a fence the first time he heard Smokey Robinson singing.

Smokey Robinson has been a living legend to music fans for years. Now it's official: The 68-year-old R&B icon was inducted into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame.

For an opera house, the Bardavon sure knows how to rock. That relatively tiny theater on Poughkeepsie's Market Street has secured a string of musical power players for big performances in recent years that ...

The two Rock and Roll Hall of Famers join forces tonight at Soboba Casino. Frankie Valli and Smokey Robinson, the frontmen for two top groups in the 1960s who were both famous for their falsettos, are sharing ...

If you've ever caught yourself wistfully reminiscing about the music of the '60s, lament no longer - you'll find it at Soboba Casino on Friday.

AMERICAN IDOL "David [Archuleta], I know your gut will be to . . . find the most inspirational ballad possible, leaving me bored to tears as you sing your cute-as-pie version . via The Boston Globe

“The visuals (Curtis McNair) created resonated with people. It touched people's lives, and anybody that can do that is doing good work”

Curtis McNair marched for civil rights in the '40s, helped integrate the Army in the '50s, and was among the first blacks hired at Chrysler Motors' corporate office in the early '60s. But The Charlotte Observer ... via News Observer

Singer Smokey Robinson and actor Denzel Washington are to be honored at the Apollo Theater's fourth annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Harlem, N.Y. Robinson is to be inducted into the Apollo Legends Hall ... via Political Gateway

“But after three years of doing that, I was climbing the walls. I can't ever see myself retiring again.”

Smokey Robinson never uses the word 'yes.' It's always 'yeah.' A breathy, velvety, low-key 'yeah.' As in, 'Yeah, baby, I'm as smooth as I ever was.' He never actually said that; he's much too gracious. via The Honolulu Advertiser

“He'd pat his foot like a white boy.”

Delving deep into the dichotomy of personality that plagues so many successful artists, tonight's American Masters profiles Marvin Gaye, "one of the most musically creative minds ever." That assessment, in the ... via Philly.com

“He was also a very troubled man”

Motown's ultimate love god, Marvin Gaye, has to be one of the most complex and fascinating characters ever to come out of the legendary Detroit record company. via Detroit News

Comments on Topix forums : "Today," NBC: Author Mary Tillman ; author Ariane de Bonvoisin ; singer Smokey Robinson. via The Asheville Citizen-Times

We came, we saw, we experienced celebrity overload. Here are highlights from Derby Day. via The Courier-Journal

With hints of Smokey Robinson and other classic soul artists of the '60s and '70s, Jamie Lidell 's new album, Jim , transports the listener back to those simpler days while at the same time keeping things ... via JamBase

“Baby Love", "Stop In The Name of Love", "Can't Hurry Love", "Touch Me In The Morning", "A Lovely Day", "It's My House", Upside Down”

SO SMOOTH: Grammy award winning artiste Smokey Robinson during his performance on the opening night of the Plymouth Jazz Festival, on Friday at the Plymouth Recreation Grounds, Tobago. via Trinidad & Tobago Express

“We have worked tirelessly in taking this year's festival to the next level”

THE PICTURESQUE fishing village of Plymouth, Tobago, will transform into what Forbes Traveler has described as "one of the world's coolest music festivals" this weekend. via Newsday

“I was a little upset about that. My fur!”

It's been more than 30 years since her days in Motown group The Supremes, but Mary Wilson is still every bit the soul diva. via The West Australian